Subaltern Medievalisms

DAVID MATTHEWS is Professor of Medieval and Medievalism Studies in the English Department at the University of Manchester. MICHAEL SANDERS is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Writing in the English Department at the University of Manchester. Contributors: Stephen Basdeo, Carolyn Collette, Ingrid Hanson, Stephen Knight, David Matthews, Stuart McWilliams, Rosemary Mitchell, Matthew Roberts, Michael Sanders, Colin Trodd. DAVID MATTHEWS is Professor of Medieval and Medievalism Studies in the English Department at the University of Manchester. MICHAEL SANDERS is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Writing in the English Department at the University of Manchester. Contributors: Stephen Basdeo, Carolyn Collette, Ingrid Hanson, Stephen Knight, David Matthews, Stuart McWilliams, Rosemary Mitchell, Matthew Roberts, Michael Sanders, Colin Trodd. CAROLYN COLLETTE is an American literary critic whose work has focused on late Medieval Anglo-French literary culture. She is Professor Emerita of English literature at Mount Holyoke College.

Introduction: Towards a Subaltern Medieval Unconscious - David Matthews and Michael Sanders
Catholicism and Constitutionalism in William Cobbett's English and Irish Medievalism - Matthew Roberts
Resisting Medievalism: The 'Mediaeval Mania' and the Working-Class Press - David Matthews
How Radical was Rienzi? The Nineteenth-Century Representation of the Roman Revolutionary Republican in the British Cultural Imagination - Rosemary A. Mitchell
Chartism and Medievalism: Retrospective Radicalism in the English Nineteenth Century - Stephen Knight
Making Sense of Chartism's Multiple Medievalisms - Michael Sanders
Rousing 'the Spirit of Wat Tyler': Chartist Newspaper Portrayals of the Rebel Leader - Stephen Basdeo
The Cause of Liberty: Ford Madox Brown, Augustus Welby Pugin and Victorian Medievalism - Colin Trodd
Serfs, Saints and Comrades: Working-Class Medievalism and the Narratives of Victorian Socialism - Ingrid Hanson
Morbid Solidarity: Remains, Afterlives, and the Commune of Saints - Stuart McWilliams
Finding the Present in the Past: Suffrage Medievalism in the Pages of Votes for Women - Carolyn P Collette